The Starlite Drive-in was operated by Kerasotes Theatres in 1955. This was a drive-in with a single screen that showed double feature movies. The main movie was always shown first at dusk, a B-movie would be shown as the late movie and would start around 11:15pm. They had one building that was the concession stand. They served great BBQ, hot dogs, burgers and pizza.

The drive-in was destroyed in a fire in 1990. The Showplace 12 multi-screen theatre now resides where the Starlite Drive-In used to be. This new theatre opened up around 2000 or 2001.

My wife and I would go to the Starlite when our son was just a baby. The Starlite was the last drive-in in the Peoria area and if we couldn’t get a babysitter we could take our son and he would fall asleep by the time the movie would start.